Kevin McCarthy

WASHINGTON — At this point, I worry we're going to start finding members of the Republican establishment curled up in their beds, eyes clenched shut and ears covered with trembling hands, moaning "make it stop, make it stop, make it stop."

Pity their suffering, but remember that they brought it on themselves.

The insurrection that propelled billionaire Donald Trump into the lead for the GOP nomination and ultimately made House Speaker John Boehner surrender his gavel in frustration rages on unabated.

It is dawning on the party grandees that their most recent predictions of Trump's demise, like earlier ones, were wrong. He lost some ground after a...

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